Chapter Four: A Little lesson in Rotation Battling.
While Kiba went ahead to his dorm, Naruto and Zorua were well on their way to the Entie Dormitory, when they spotted a battle between two upper class students from the Suicune dorm. On the left side of field stood a boy with black hair and blue eyes and his partner Dragonite. Dragonite was a rather bulky looking creature of the dragon species that resemble bipedal European dragon. Despite that, Dragonite are very fast flyers. Dragonite's features include orange scales, arms and legs, all of which are equipped with three claws, horn on its forehead, and green-colored wings that can increase in size while flying. Dragonite also has a pair of S-shaped antenna, and a cream-colored, striated underbelly.
On the right side of the field, and with his back turned towards our heroes, stood the same green headed boy from the boat ride with his partner Serperior. Serperior looked to be a giant snake-like Pokémon. Her face and upper neck are white-colored, and curled, tendril-like darker green extensions spread out from the sides of her lower neck, forming a curling pattern lower down the body, resembling a fancy collar. Serperior's eyes are colored red. And, she has a curled yellow patterns adorn its body, and a sprig-like feature of several leaves tip her tail.
"Go!" the boy with blue eyes shouted at his Dragonite. "Use, Thunderwave!"
"Counter it with Safeguard, Serperior!" the green haired stranger called.
Dragonite flew forth, and released tiny sparks from its antenna. This particular attack was countered by Serperior chanting a spell. By doing this, Serperior was able to create thousands of tiny silver butterflies, which formed a protective barricade in the shape of one giant butterfly around Serperior, and shielded her from Dragonite's attack.
"Attack with Dragon Tail!" the green headed boy shouted.
On his command, Serperior started to glow red, and then she swatted Dragonite with the powerful attack.
"Now finish this up with Giga Impact!" Serperior's trainer shouted.
Even without feet, Serperior was able to charge after Dragonite with a great amount of speed, and then slam her body into Dragonite. As a result, Dragonite was thrown back nearly crushing the teenaged trainer that commanded it.
"Giga Impact..." Naruto repeated, and Zorua looked up at him-still wearing her EXP share crown. "Maybe I should think about teaching that to you, Zorua."
"That Thorn Rose... he's something else," someone said.
Beside Naruto himself, there were a bunch of other trainers around watching the green headed boy, now recognized as Thorn, battle challengers. Though most of them were Suicune students, there were also a few Raikou trainers, the boy with the onyx eyes, and Frost.
The person who had spoken was another male student with his hair styled in a strange bowl cut, and rather thick eye brows. No more than a year older than Naruto, the teenage boy wore a sleeveless black shirt, with a green imprint of a Pokéball. He also wore a pair of black martial art pants and shoes. On both of his wrists were two green wrist-bands with black stripes.
"So this trainer Thorn," Naruto said starting a conversation. "Who is he?"
"That's strange. I thought everyone around here knew Thorn...well anyway Thorn is of the top ten third year students at the school. Ranking in at number five, Thorn plans on being the very first member of the Elite Four to master in Grass type Pokémon." the boy explained. "I myself look forward to battling such a trainer."
Looking back out at battling field, Naruto noticed that both trainers were recalling their Pokémon. Before walking back to his dorm with his friends, Thorn turned around and went to pick up his backpack. Then, as he began to leave, he noticed Naruto peering out to him from across the field. Giving the young blond trainer a friendly nod, Thorn grabbed his bag and headed into the direction of Suicune Dormitory.
"My name is Rock Lee by the way," the boy pointed to himself with a flashy smile. "I live in dorm 109. You should stop by sometime if you would like to battle with me and my team."
"Oh, that's right." Looking at the back of his trainer card, Naruto suddenly remembered why he was passing the by the battling field. "Well how about that-my dorm number is also 109..."
He grinned at Lee. "I guess we're going to be roommates for the semester."
"Mistress Tsunade said there were going to be some new students here today...you must be one of them." Lee said. And then he asked, "How about I show you to our dorm?"
Naruto readjusted the strap on backpack and replied, "Lead the way."
From there, the two Entie students and Zorua walked to a large building covered in morning glories.
Lee opened the door by swiping his student ID as if it were a credit card. After that, he stepped out of the way so Naruto and Zorua could admire their new room for the semester. Inside, Naruto could see two bunk beds, a small coffee table, a red sofa, two lamps, one TV, and one large bay window. Zorua jumped into the window to get a better look at beach. Around the evening, which just so happens to be the current time, the Krabby walk onto the beach and blow colorful bubbles into the sunset. Zorua watched as the bubble floated around the island and into the air with curiosity in her eyes.
"The others won't be here until late tonight," Lee said as he took a seat on the couch and turned on the TV. He was referring to the other trainers that also bunked here. "For some odd reason, the two of them really like to train during the late hours."
"Actually, that doesn't seem like a bad idea..." Naruto replied. "At night, different species come out at right?"
Lee nodded. "I guess that would be a reason to go out night..."
"In fact," Naruto grabbed his backpack from the coffee table, and headed towards the door. Zorua jumped from the window, and tailed behind him. "I think Zorua and I will head out for a little while."
"If you say so," Lee just shrugged and continued to watch the TV.
Naruto and Zorua explored the outer region of school. This of course led them into a quiet forest with long narrow path with three ways. The two of them chose to continue down the path in the middle. Along the way, Zorua would stop for a short while to examine another Pokémon, or to taste a berry that has fallen from the treetops. Pretty soon, the bushes began to rustle behind them. Naruto and Zorua went on alert, and prepared themselves for whatever was coming.
Turning, Naruto spotted a wild ghost Pokémon called Haunter. This particular Haunter had a big grin plastered across his purple face as Naruto stood motionless with Zorua hiding behind his leg. Then, sticking out his oversized tongue at the blond haired trainer, Haunter floated off into a different direction of the forest-leaving Naruto to pursuit after him.
On a different side of the forest, Frost was taking a small stroll along the path leading to left. Upon his arrival to the school, Frost had changed from his school uniform and into his usual clothes: Frost wore a black t-shirt, a pair of white jeans, and black sneakers. On his wrist was a watch. Since it was pretty late in the evening, Frost gave yawned a little and stretched his arms into the air. Once his eyes were open, the snowy haired trainer came face to face with one of the many creatures of the night—a Duskull.
Duskull is a ghost type Pokémon with a black with a skull in the middle of his face, and a single red eye that was now staring at Frost. Smirking, Frost backed up, and reached for one of his Pokéballs.
"Cubchoo, front and center!" he called.
From a sudden burst of light, Cubchoo appeared. Cubchoo is an ursine Pokémon with a light blue head and neck. His features include a slightly pointed head, big round ears, oval-shaped eyes, and a darker-blue muzzle. From Cubchoo's nose, a large amount of light blue nasal mucus, the source of most his attacks, droops. The lower part of Cubchoo's body is white, and has rounded forepaws, and a small round tail.
"Use, Shadow Claw!" Frost pointed his finger at Duskull.
Cubchoo ran forward, and tried swiping Duskull with his sharp claws which were surrounded by a sinister black aura. To avoid the attack, Duskull simply faded away into the trunk of the forest trees, and Cubchoo's claws slashed through the bark of tree. Frost took out a flashlight from his bag, and shinned the light around.
"This is going to be harder than thought..." He said to himself.
Continuing his little game, Duskull flew pass Frost, giving the snowy haired trainer a signal to follow him.
"Let's go," Frost allowed Cubchoo to climb onto his shoulder. After that, the two of them chased after skull-faced ghost.
Walking along the path to right was the boy with the onyx eyes. From his trainer card, this young boy was identified as Uchiha Sasuke. Casually strolling down the forest path with his hands in his pockets, Sasuke suddenly felt something brush right pass him. Stopping, Sasuke turned around to find no one was there. So, deciding that it was nothing, Sasuke continued to walk. Again, after a few minutes of solitude, Sasuke felt his hair get tug by the same force, which just so happen to be a wild Misdreavus.
Sasuke looked eyed the little ghost. Misdreavus was bluish color with purple highlights in what was thought to be her hair. Her eyes were yellow with red pupils and she wore a red necklace-like collar around her neck. Sasuke pulled out three Pokéballs from his pocket, and tossed them. Out popped his Oshawott, Purrlion, and Zubat. The three of them surrounded Misdreavus and waited for their commands.
"Oshawott use Scald! Purrlion use Shadow Ball! And Zubat, you attack with Bite!" Sasuke commanded.
Taking in a deep breath, Oshawott released a fair amount of boiling water from his mouth, while Purrlion conjured a ball of sinister shadows, and then, he fired it at Misdreavus. As for Zubat, he flew after Misdreavus with his sharp fangs flared. Dodging the multiple attacks, Misdreavus faded away into thin air, and then reappeared behind Sasuke. From there, she tugged at his hair, and floated off into a different direction. Quickly thinking, Sasuke turned Purrlion and Zubat to their Pokéballs.
"Come on," he said to Oshawott.
And with that, Sasuke and his partner chased after Misdreavus. Pretty soon, each of the ghost Pokémon met up with each other-Naruto, Sasuke, and Frost following in pursuit of them. As he and Zorua got closer to Haunter, Naruto grinned.
"I've almost got you..." he said, pulling out a Pokéball. "I just have to...Gah!"
Our blond haired hero was so busy with trying to capture Haunter that he'd failed to notice that he was crashing into someone—someone who was oh-so familiar to him.
"Ouch..." Naruto rubbed his head and looked up.
In front of him was Frost who checked his fore head for any bumps, and muttering to himself while his Cubchoo tried to comfort him. And to his right, was Sasuke and his Oshawott. Sasuke's teeth were gritted as he rubbed his backside in pain.
Naruto stood up. "So, I'm guessing the two of you are trying catch that Haunter, too?"
"What...?" Sasuke questioned. Then, he shook his head. "No, you must be mistaken. I'm chasing after a Misdreavus."
"Well I think you're both wrong," Frost said, and Cubchoo climbed back onto his shoulder. "Cubchoo and I were just in pursuit of a wild Duskull."
Not long after that, the ghost trio decided to make an appearance-their last appearance before being captured. At this same moment, the boys each pulled out an empty Pokéball, and then tossed them at same exact time. Naruto tossed an ordinary Pokéball, Frost threw a Great Ball, and Sasuke flung a Dusk Ball from his hand. The three of them watched each of the Pokéballs fell to the ground, shaking slightly, until the little red light in middle turned back to its original egg shell color.
Curious to what was happening Zorua walked over to the Pokéballs, and sniffed them. Almost immediately, Haunter and the others popped out, slightly startling Zorua in the process.
"Welcome to the team, Haunter." Naruto grinned, as he new ghost type partner floated happily around his head in circles.
"Hmm..." Sasuke looked at Misdreavus, and then held out his black Pokétch watch in front of so it could scan her.
Once the little blue light went out, a small pop-up screen appeared with Misdreavus' moves on it: Shadow Ball, Power Gem, Mean Look, and Perish Song.
Curse, Nightshade, Pursuit, and Confuse Ray were Duskull's set moves. After checking over them, Frost reached into his bag and pulled out his TM case. From there, he pulled one of the colored disks out, and placed it at Duskull's transparent head.
"From now own Duskull, your move Curse will be replaced with Ice Beam." Frost stated, as the TM began to glow in his pale hand.
With nothing more to say to each other, and less than five hours before a new day at White Academy started, the three boys and their Pokémon walked back to the Entie Dormitory for some rest.
"Hey kid, wake up..."
"Just a little while longer..."
Naruto shifted his weight to the left as Sasuke tried shaking him from the opposite end. Sasuke glanced at his Pokétch-from the current time, the two them only had twenty minutes before their first class started. Considering this, Sasuke pulled Oshawott's Pokéball and unleashed part two of his plan.
"Oshawott, use Scald." he said.
Oshawott climbed onto the top bunk, taking aim at the curled mass of bed sheets with blond hair. From there, the tiny otter shot a stream of boiling water from his mouth.
"Gah!" After nearly jumping through the ceiling, Naruto glared at Sasuke, as he threw his steaming bed sheets to side.
"What was that for?" he shouted.
"I could give all the details, but we only have about fifteen minutes until class starts," Sasuke tossed Naruto his Gakuran uniform, with a medium sized brooch in the shape of a flame. "So, get dressed."
Hearing this, Naruto decided that it was best to get back at Sasuke once school was over, and to get dressed. From there, both Sasuke and Naruto tried sneaking their way into their battling class.
Perfect, Naruto grinned poking his head through the doors of the stadium. Now all we have to do is go in...
"A Rotation Battle is a new form of battling style for a trainer and their Pokémon," Kakashi explained to the students of his class. "To kick off this lesson, I'm going to need two volunteers."
"Let's see..." Kakashi scanned the stands of the stadium, when he spotted a certain blond trainer taking his seat in the back row.
Bingo, Kakashi pointed his finger at Naruto. "You there..."
"Uh, me...?" Naruto asked, stupidly.
"Of course he means you," Sasuke rolled his eyes.
Kakashi nodded, and pointed at another student. "And...Chris, I'm going to need the two of you for the demonstration."
This particular student was wearing a uniform with the Raikou Yellow thunderbolt pinned to it. He had black hair, and peach colored skin. His eyes were brown but, he wore an eye patch over his left eye. Even though he was a year ahead of most of the students in his class took his place on the right side of field, and so did Naruto.
"Now, let's start out by calling out your teams of three." Kakashi said.
Naruto nodded, pulled out two Pokéballs, and tossed them into the air. From inside appeared both Pansage and Tepig appeared, and took their places on top of the rotation platform. With a look of satisfaction on his face, Naruto reached into his pocket to pull out Zorua's ball when suddenly, Haunter popped out.
Naruto tried to recall his restless ghost partner.
"Haunter, I'm going to need you to stand by for a while." he said, but Haunter dodged the red stream of energy that was going return him to his Pokéball.
"Are both trainers ready to start the lesson?" Kakashi asked—a brown clip board in his hands.
Before answering, Naruto glanced over at his opponent. With his Infernape, Beartic, and Electivire already on the field, Chris was ready to start the battle that would count as extra credit, and put him one step closer to being a Suicune student.
"I guess..." Naruto stuck Zorua's Pokéball back into his pocket. After that, he looked at Haunter and said, "Since you're out, you might as well get out there."
Haunter disappeared, and then reappeared next to Pansage. With three Pokémon on each platform, Kakashi tossed each of the boys a remote with a left and right control function.
"You're going to need that for the battle," he explained. "Otherwise it would be called a Rotation Battle."
Chris started the battle by rotating his team to left, placing Beartic in front of his team, and Pansage's opponent.
"Use Ice Punch!" he called out to the massive polar bear.
Tepig should be perfect for this job, Naruto thought, and then he tried rotating his team to the right as well.
But, Haunter had different plans for this battle. By tapping into the system of the rotation platform with his ghostly powers, Haunter was able to force the dais to switch over to the right side instead, and then match Beartic's attack with an elemental punch of his own-Fire Punch.
"Uhh...nice job, Haunter." Naruto called. Afterwards, tried he pressed the button again to switch over.
The platform didn't budge, and Haunter was quite through with Beartic just yet. Unleashing another attack Haunter spat out a mixture of filth and toxic sludge at his opponent's face. Beartic's entire body turned from blue and white, to a shade of rich purple. In other words, he'd been poison, which was slowly eating away at his HP. Beartic growled trying to swipe the sludge from his face. With his opponent distracted, Haunter took the advantage, and punched Beartic with Fire Punch. Beartic stumbled backwards, and Chris glared at Haunter, switching the platform over to Electivire.
"Alright you two," Kakashi stepped in before anything could happen. "I think the entire lesson is clear to everyone."
Chris returned his Pokémon to their balls, and then approached Naruto. "You know, you really should keep a leash on that Haunter of yours."
After hearing that, Naruto watched as the dark haired boy walked back to his seat. Naruto recalled his team, and returned to his seat as well. With Haunter acting out, it was only a matter of time before things were totally out his control.
A/N: Sorry for the wait everyone, but here's the new chapter. In the previous version Naruto had a Haunter that lashed out and became too powerful for him to handle. Since some of readers liked the idea, I decided to add it into this one as well.
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